📖 Ancient Restoration
Many Icelanders look very much like Irish people, as almost half of Icelanders originally came from Ireland/Scotland as bondsmen. Examples:
📖 Ancient Restoration
#Icelanders trace about 37% of their matrilineal and 75-80% of their patrilineal DNA ancestry to Scandinavia:
On #Iceland's bleak southern coast an ancient carving on a stone column reads: "Fionn mac Cumhaill was here."
📖 Ancient Restoration
The first observations of sea ice came from 8th century Irish monks in Iceland. Scientists still make use of their notes today:
Cross sculptures made by Irish monks in their monastic caves on the Westman Islands, #Iceland - 9th century. Some 200 such caves exist.
📖 Ancient Restoration
Icelandic names of Irish origin: Njál (Niall) Brján (Brian), Kjartan (McCartan), Kormakr (Cormac), Kjaran (Ciaran).
Patreksfjörður, #Iceland, meaning 'Patrick's fjord' - Named after St. Patrick, the spiritual guide of Örlygur Hrappson, its first settler.